Top 90 Misfit Quotes
#1. Beware of a misfit occupation ... Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.
Marshall Field
#2. So here we sit on the island of misfit lovers. The broken, the maimed, the malformed, who still, all sensible evidence to the contrary, believe in love, crave love.
Isabel Sharpe
#3. The organizational fit is the good balance of the fitting attitude and misfit thinking.
Pearl Zhu
#4. I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.
Rhys Ifans
#5. Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
Elbert Hubbard
#6. Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
Patti Smith
#7. I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.
Rainn Wilson
#8. They validate perceptions that need validating, especially in adolescence
ie, under the bland, forced optimism of American life terrible forces are at work, things are not what they seem, and if you feel lonely, persecuted, a misfit, and in terror, you aren't crazy. You're right.
Joanna Russ
#9. She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
Flannery O'Connor
#10. But as Ana pulled away on a west-bound highway with a werewolf riding shotgun and her thirst for blood calling yet again, she had this thought: Maybe a Misfit could never be normal, no matter how badly it wanted to.
Ayul Hendricks-Levy
#11. I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.
Brian Molko
#12. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
Alexandra Robbins
#13. I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.
Steve Roper
#14. Welcome to the world of misfit toys.
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#16. Every fit has a misfit. Finding your fit is the path rather than fighting to fit.
O. Stephen Peart
#17. On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.
James Thurber
#18. Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.
Henry Adams
#19. She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.
Thomm Quackenbush
#20. In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.
Erin O'Connor
#21. Check out all the books on Amazon by Kally Mayer If You Found A Little Monster Little Monsters Have Feelings Too! Dance Little Monster, Dance! Go To Sleep Little Monster Brit the Misfit Gross Gus Gross Gus Meets Enormous Ellie
Kally Mayer
#22. A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still.
Pearl Zhu
#23. I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
Charles De Lint
#24. Go too far outside "the box," of course, and you will encounter a vernacular that is much less "tolerant." Here, the key words are "fanatic," "troublemaker," "misfit" or "malcontent.
Christopher Hitchens
#25. He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of.
Malcolm Gladwell
#26. If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
Alan Cohen
#27. We are the Island of Misfit Toys, all broken or smashed in some way.
Corrine Jackson
#28. After years of feeling like a misfit, I've realized that the world is full of other misfits, all of us identifying with Hobbits - - the little guys whom no one else respects. And who quietly end up changing the course of history.
Tess Gerritsen
#29. Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.
Kristin Davis
#30. Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer Or the misfit so alone
Bradley J. Birzer
#31. What is this? The land of misfit models?
M. Leighton
#32. Amy Studt is singing in my ear about misfits. This song used to mean so much to me; that's because I'm a misfit.
E.L. James
#33. I knew we'd wear them down,' Eve said. 'After all, we really are amazingly cool.' And now it was Eve's turn for the high five with Shane. 'For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.'
'Which one are you?' Shane asked. She flipped him off. 'Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me.
Rachel Caine
#34. It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#35. All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.
Sue Grafton
#36. Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.
Jenny Lawson
#38. A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.
Martin E. Marty
#39. I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different ... and you can carve that in stone!
Jennifer Damiano
#40. I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.
Claire Danes
#42. When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'
Wendy Williams
#43. Lady," The Misfit said, looking beyond her far into the woods, "there never was a body that give the undertaker a tip.
Flannery O'Connor
#44. Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Alan Rickman
#45. Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.
Jack D. Zipes
#46. It's better to be a "misfit" than a "one-size-fits-all"!
Mandy Hale
#47. He looks like the rich-boy villain in an '80s teen movie - the one who bullies the sensitive misfit, the one who will end up with a pie in the puss, the whipped cream wilting his upturned collar as everyone in the cafeteria cheers.
Gillian Flynn
#48. I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.
Martha Wainwright
#49. I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys.
Camren Bicondova
#50. I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled sweetly and told me how terrible and fucked-up I was were complete fuckups themselves.
John Elder Robison
#51. Aidan had compared Bellingham to the Island of Misfit Toys, a sanctuary for the unwanted. But the problem, as I saw it, was that putting this many defective kids together only created more trouble.
Amber Dermont
#52. It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.
Alan Stern
#53. Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I.
Pink Floyd
#54. America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.
Henry Miller
#55. Eleanor," Daniel said. "Miss Fitt! Wake up!"
I fluttered my eyelids open. "I'm not a misfit anymore," I rasped. "I thought I told you that.
Susan Dennard
#56. One person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find friends and your place in the world.
Amy Hill Hearth
#57. Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
Garry Trudeau
#58. We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#59. A cotton-candy knockout, a strawberry sundae sweetheart, and a vanilla soft-serve misfit. We are the youth. And we live in a world where innocence is so short.
YellowBella
#60. Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.
Marilyn Manson
#61. When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.
Steve Vai
#62. A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.
Jeremy Davies
#63. I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.
Jenna Fischer
#64. I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.
Clare Balding
#65. Why do I suddenly feel like I'm on the Island of Misfit Toys?
Allison Pang
#66. She walks,
on the streets,
with a face that,
doesn't belong.
It smiles more than,
many put together,
whole day long.
Her heart misfit,
a little chipped.
And she likes to,
call it once broken,
but now stitched.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#68. Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
Rafael Yglesias
#69. I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.
Sheri L. Dew
#71. Great. Now the queen thought I was a misfit, too.
Kiera Cass
#72. They have taught man that he is a hopeless misfit made of two elements, both symbols of death. A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost- yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost, (john Galt)
Ayn Rand
#73. There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.
Daniel Radcliffe
#74. Someone once said that Sci Fi was the modern Western. What's my favorite? Well, anything that needs a misfit. I don't have a real favorite. My dream is to play something different.
William Sanderson
#75. I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you're young, you want to be like everybody else, and I was like nobody else. I couldn't sit still. I was impulsive. I still am. What is now called a 'talent' did not serve me well as a child. I didn't have friends. I was really an outcast.
Howie Mandel
#76. we were never a match;
always a marvelous misfit.
Akif Kichloo
#77. I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.
Kangana Ranaut
#78. The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the miserable physique and the national defects of concave chests and bow legs. The lack of 'complexion' and of hair upon the face makes it nearly impossible to judge of the ages of men.
Isabella Bird
#79. Michael hated this, it was the worst thing he could imagine, disappearing into the mass- he didn't know how to submerge himself, he was the puzzle piece that fit nowhere.
Janet Fitch
#80. How was Savannah supposed to pretend this glamorous life was what she'd always known? She was from a slummy neighborhood in a town outside San Francisco. These people were going to see right through her.
Michelle Madow
#82. And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons ...
Maxim Gorky
#83. And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.
Catherynne M Valente
#84. It wasn't simply his choosing to be alone that kept him that way; it was almost a condition of his existence. The feeling that he was an outsider had always been there.
Terry Brooks
#85. I'm drawn to unusual, even freakish people. Why? They are far more engaging than the ordinary, which the world has too much of.
Donna Lynn Hope
#86. People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.
Donna Lynn Hope
#87. I suddenly realise that it doesn't matter how far I go, or how lost I am, or how lonely I feel. I fit in here. I always will.
That's how I know I'm home.
Holly Smale
#88. A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#89. I definitely felt out of place at first, not unlike being lactose intolerant in Wisconsin.
Jared Brock
#90. I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.
Stephen J. Day
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